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Study of brine discharge from desalination plant finds good news and bad news
Brine discharged from the Carlsbad Desalination Plant raises offshore salinity levels more than permitted, but researchers found no direct local...
Climate change could make corals go it alone
Credit: Opencage/Wikimedia and Anna Weiss/ The University of Texas Jackson School of Geosciences. Climate change is bad news for coral...
Looking to choose a healthy post-workout snack? Decide early, study says
Credit: Craig Chandler, University of Nebraska-Lincoln You've just exercised for an hour, tracking the burned calories with a sense of...
Salmon populations may adapt their eggs to survive in degraded rivers
Credit: University of Southampton A University of Southampton study suggests that the membrane of salmon eggs may evolve to cope...
Persistent low body weight in young kids increases risk for anorexia nervosa later
The study, co-authored by Zeynep Yilmaz, PhD, also found that persistent high body weight in young children may be a...
How the fruit fly got its stripes: Researchers explore precision of embryonic development
Princeton physicists and biologists collaborate to study how cells use molecular information during developmentCredit: Illustration by Mariela Petkova The first...
UMD study finds exercise benefits brains, changes blood flow in older adults
Exercise can impact biomarkers of brain function in a way that might prevent or postpone the onset of dementiaCredit: John...
Research identifies pathway connecting some ARV drugs with liver disease
As a raft of new treatments for HIV infection have come on the market in the past 20 years, AIDS...
Earth's largest extinction event likely took plants first
Credit: Christopher Fielding Little life could endure the Earth-spanning cataclysm known as the Great Dying, but plants may have suffered...
Feeding tubes shouldn't be on POLST forms: JAGS opinion paper
Surgically inserted feeding tubes harm patients with dementia, research showsCredit: Oregon POLST Following years of research that demonstrated feeding tubes...
Identity crisis of satiety neurons leads to obesity
Credit: Source: modified from Quarta, C. & Fisette, A. et al. (Nature Metabolism) Obesity - as research in the past...
The search for environmental causes of Parkinson's disease moves forward
Scientists evaluate promising research hypotheses for understanding environmental triggers in Parkinson's disease and propose future directions for research in the...
Do all chemotherapies have equal long-term heart risk?
Study of 28,000 childhood cancer survivors finds important differencesCredit: UT Health San Antonio SAN ANTONIO -- In long-term survivors of...
Quantum sensors providing magnetic resonance with unprecedented sensitivity
The QUTIS group at the UPV/EHU has participated in a piece of international research together with the CSIC and the...
Male birth control for the malaria parasite
Credit: Kevin J. Hart, Penn State Disrupting two genes involved in the preservation of RNA molecules inhibits the ability of...
Mean streets: Self-driving cars will 'cruise' to avoid paying to park
Autonomous vehicles 'have every incentive to create havoc,' transportation planner saysCredit: UC Santa Cruz If you think traffic in city...
Immune master regulator orchestrates responses to parasite infection
Whipworm study finds IL10 receptor is critical to prevent uncontrolled infection and gut damage A new study has identified the...
Leipzig researchers on Spanish Antarctic expedition
Focus on interactions between ocean and atmosphere around the Antarctic PeninsulaCredit: Marcel Köning, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel Ushuaia/Leipzig. During the next...
Homeopathy reconsidered: What really helps patients
Critical questions, old and new, about homeopathy, and what mainstream medicine can learn from it. | Springer book explains what...
The development of brain stem cells into new nerve cells and why this can lead to cancer
Stem cells are true Jacks-of-all-trades of our bodies, as they can turn into the many different cell types of all...
